New SEOmoz Web App Now in Beta for PRO&nbspMembers

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If you've been using SEOmoz's tools for a while, you've likely run across the same challenge we have -- the data rocks, but you have to run a separate tool and report for each aspect of your SEO. That's why, for the past year, we've been building a new platform to house all of the features and functionality of the SEOmoz toolset, and includes the ability to track metrics over time. We call it the SEOmoz "Web App."

It's hard for me to resist making this post nothing but a huge collection of screenshots...

We encourage you to create your first campaign(s), start tracking some rankings, crawling some pages and getting those optimization recommendations. The web app is our first application to automatically track data for any site(s) you care about on an ongoing, consistent basis, and make recommendations based on what we find. Thus, the real value comes after a week or two of tracking, and it gets more valuable, useful and reference worthy over time. One of our big goals was to make this app give back some beautiful screenshots and reports showing your progress in reducing the crawl problems, improving optimization and gaining in the rankings over time.

How it Works

The challenge with doing SEO on sites bigger than a few dozen pages is that no human has time to visit every page on a regular basis and check to make sure nothing is wrong, no opportunities are missed, no errors are present, and no search rankings are being unintentionally forfeited through poor optimization. The web app is designed to solve this by:

#1 - Crawling all the pages on your site every week and identifying potential issues in three categories:

Notices - not problems, per se, but issues you might want to be aware of like 301s, rel=canonical tags, meta robots blocking, etc.

While we love what Google's Webmaster Tools does on this front, we felt there were a lot more issues we wanted to see.

#2 - Tracking Rankings on the keywords you choose and automatically grading the pages that rank in the top 50 for their on-page optimization. It's a simple concept, but a powerful one. Why? Because, we often found that:

URLs ranking on page 2, 3 or 4 for a keyword phrase could move up dramatically in rankings and traffic with just a bit of keyword tweaking

Sometimes, SEOs & marketers might not even realize they had a page that was competitive for a keyword, and showing off that potential automatically could make a huge difference

Tracking rankings can help identify potential causes of rising/falling traffic and give a key baseline for performance, particularly as we add in data like traffic via web analytics, keyword difficulty scores and estimated search volume.

Basic rank tracking is great, but we think there's a lot more you can do with the data when it's integrated with other KPIs and metrics

Tracking competitors simultaneously is helpful for those SEOs who want to keep special tabs on select sites

#3 - On-Page Grading & Recommendations serve as a great companion to rank tracking, enabling easy identification of low hanging fruit (poorly optimized pages that still rank in the top 50 results are often huge opportunities for improved rankings and traffic). We built this feature because:

It's frustrating to figure out the best practices for on-page optimziation, but our correlation and ranking models work have made some valuable strides that deserve to be shared.

No one can visit hundreds or thousands of pages and find all the keywords that are suboptimally targeted. The web app (particularly in concert with tip #1 below) can and it will message these with easy-to-parse grades and simple recommendations.

You can feel confident that the on-page recommendations are consitently updating with best practices. As we learn more through testing/research or as algorithms change (we re-do our ranking models every few months), that information will quickly make its way into the on-page report cards.

An "A"! That's good news. Still missing a few recommendations that might be worth checking out, though.

Aha! Using the keyword in the alt attribute might be a good addition (both for normal web rankings and for image SEO)

#4 - Link Analysis for your site and those of key competitors. This tab is still in progress, but in the future, we plan to integrate all of the link analysis abilities of Open Site Explorer and add historical tracking, competitive SERPs analysis and more.

Much more functionality coming soon

#5 - One Comprehensive System to Rule It All. More so than any single feature, we wanted to begin the process of replicating all the functionality of SEOmoz's PRO tools into a single, integrated platform. You should be able to do all your SEO from one place - the web app. The functionality released today is just a tiny part of what's to come.

Now I can see and access all the sites I care about from one place in my PRO account.

How Does this Affect My PRO Account?

If you're already PRO, think of this as a big, new feature that's ready to start tracking data for you today. None of the old tools, functionality, guides, Q+A, tips, webinars, etc. are going away. We're just adding the web app as a key part of the SEOmoz PRO package.

We are, however, making a few shifts that I think you'll really like.

Previously, PRO membership tiers had limits for how many Linkscape reports they could run. We've scaled up our servers to the point where we can handle pretty hefty quantities of requests, so as of today, we're removing your Linkscape advanced report limits - all PRO members can now run unlimited numbers of Linkscape reports. Q+A remains the same, as does access to all the other tools + content.

Here's the new PRO membership plans:

You may notice we've changed our pricing; however, these prices are for new members only. Existing PRO members will continue to pay what they have in the past, but receive the expanded benefits and privileges we're launching today. It's our way of saying thanks for joining us in the early days. PRO members - you'll get an email soon detailing the improvements/upgrades to your membership.

If you're not yet PRO, we're keeping the PRO price of $79/month available until August 25th (14 days from now). After that, the price will go up to $99/month. If you sign up now (at $79/month), you'll be grandfathered in and won't be subject to future price increases.

And, as always, as PRO membership gets better, you'll get immediate access to new features & upgrades and we'll never raise your price.

5 Quick Tips to Get Started

The web app is certainly designed to be largely self-explanatory and I'm sure many of you have already jumped in and given it a spin. But, for those seeking a few tricks, here's some that we've found in the last few weeks of using it for projects (some in concert with our consulting friends at Distilled).

#1 - Import some of your top referring keywords from your analytics

When I started the SEOmoz campaign, I grabbed our top few hundred keywords that referred traffic and imported them through the manage keywords input box (which kindly accepts CSV, TSV and carriage-return separated inputs).

By exporting my list of top keywords from Google Analytics and pasting them into the web app, I've got easy tracking on tons of keywords I care about, and a chance to find some missed opportunities.

#2 - Find pages that rank in the top 10-30 with low grades (Cs, Ds and Fs)

When my rankings and on-page reports came back, I found tons of pages that got Cs or Ds ranking in position 5-50, ripe for improvement.

Those Cs, Ds and Fs are gonna turn into As and send us a lot more traffic!

The best part is the automation - it's a simple process, but an incredibly tedious one if performed manually. The web app's a lifesaver on that front. Those Cs, Ds and Fs, if improved to As and Bs, will likely bring up rankings, particularly on the less competitive terms and phrases and those where I may have the links I need to rank, but never took the time to do on-page optimization. Editing a few page titles and adding some keywords to content never felt so rewarding.

#3 - Use the "grade any page" easter egg feature

The web app's on-page optimization system will soon be replacing our tired and somewhat rickety term target tool. In the meantime, you can run "one-off" reports through an easter egg feature. Just create the keyword you care about and you can edit the URL field manually to grade any page for any term/phrase:

Notice the highlighted portion in blue in the screenshot - easter egg FTW!

Nearly every section of the app allows for filtering based on keyword group, error type, etc. By building smart keyword groups (via the "manage keywords" page) to align with the types of terms/phrases I care about, I can separately build reports showing performance in rankings and on-page optimization for those labels.

#5 - Point out crawl diagnostic issues to a friend or potential client

If your friend has a website with some crawl issues, I'm sure they'd appreciate having that pointed out - you can even export the crawl results to CSV and email it over. Likewise, if you've got clients or managers you're trying to convince to do some SEO fixes, the diagnostic visualization can be very handy to show off the problem.

Sending over this report might just bring your buddy a bit more search traffic (or help you win a new client)!

What's Next?

Oh, believe me - we're just getting warmed up. :-)

Our engineering team is committed to regular updates every few weeks, starting with something big a couple weeks from today. Those updates will add features, fix bugs and help grow this web app into the platform professional SEOs deserve - a system that lets you perform all of the essential tasks of SEO from one place - from building, submitting and managing XML Sitemaps to tracking your ROI from organic keywords through integration with your analytics package to tracking search results in verticals like video, maps/local, news, images, et al. to mapping your crawl data from Webmaster Tools against your indexation of pages receiving search traffic (we've had some good chats with the WM Tools team about integrating their API in cool ways) and much, much more.

We'll be publishing a post this weekend inviting you to vote for features you'd most like to see. That feedback will be used to help prioritize our work, so suggest now, vote on the weekend and you'll see what you want in the app even sooner!

We Need Your Feedback

The web app is the basis for our future plans around providing great SEO software, and we need your help to make it amazing. On every page of the web app, you'll find a feedback tab on the left-hand side of the page. Please click it often and tell us what you found frustrating, what more you want to see, and even what you liked and want more of. Our team reads every one and build priorities based on the most-requested features.

We also know there's going to be bugs at launch. Some early ones we're aware of include:

Slowness - many of the web app pages take 10-15 seconds or more to load depending on the quantity of keywords, issues or other data involved. We're working to cache much of this in databases for much faster retrieval in the next few weeks.

Crawl & Rankings Retrieval - your first data will take 5-20 minutes to populate. We do an initial "speed crawl" of 250 pages, but to be respectful of server load issues, we're pretty cautious with our requests. That first hour inside the app after creation may feel a bit empty, but just wait, it gets much better :-)

On-Page Grades - edge cases, including keywords that are out of order or have odd broad matching aren't perfect yet. We'll be working to fix this and make this experience as seemless as possible.

Root Domains - currently, campaigns can only be created with single subdomains (e.g. www.seomoz.org, not *.seomoz.org). We're working to make root domains an option as well, so you can track all the pages at mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com, blog.mydomain.com, etc. in one campaign.

Adding more than 10 Keywords Simultaneously - to help with load as we begin public testing, we'll only collect rankings for the first 10-20 keywords entered immediately (within 10-15 minutes). If you add 50 or 500 keywords at once, we're limiting rankings and on-page checks until your next update date for now.

This isn't just another tool - it's a new approach for SEOmoz - creating an application that uses crawl data, APIs and integrated research to improve your productivity and simplify SEO.

But, we need to be realistic - in this first iteration, we're not just in beta, we're at the nascent stages of the app's potential. What we're launching today is pretty remarkable, and I feel confident that for nearly everyone reading this post, it can help you earn a considerable amount more traffic from the search engines. That said, the future is what we feel best about, particularly since we hope to have your help in the improvement process.

This is very much a BETA launch, but we think you'll enjoy playing around with the app and get a lot of value in return. So, what are you waiting for? Go build a campaign!

Aside from upgrading to Elite or Premier, one capability we offer is the ability to 'Archive' a campaign. We'll keep all of the historical information, but just won't collect any new information. You can 'archive' and 'unarchive' a campaign at any time and begin collecting information right away.

Basically, the 5 campaigns in the PRO membership plan is for 5 active campaigns.

This may not be the place, but with these archived campaigns I do have a questions about un-archiving them a month later.

Will making an archived campaign active again show the original data from the month prior and then add the current time on the historical chart?

To keep things under control I imagine returning to archived campaigns every month or so and grabbing data month by month. It's diluting SEOmoz's intentions for weekly fresh data but manual monthly info would suite the needs for some of my clients.

Yup, making an archived campaign active again will show the original data, and new data will be added as we collect it. There will however, but a gap of data for any period where the campaign was archived.

because that means that I can archive all the campaigns of all those potential clients whom I am pitching but finally do not sign any contract, as I am used to give some deep insides about website's SEO issue in the contracting phase.

On the other hand, yes... the limit to 5 active campaigns can be a problem when you are dealing with more active clients.

I only wish I would have upgraded to Elite last month to get grandfathered in at $129. Damn! But I still feel like I got upgraded - I can track 200 more keywords and get all these cool new apps to play with! Weeee!

One option I'd like to see so far - the ability to add a campaign for $x / month. The jump to the next level is much too expensive for my one-man operation but I already have 5 campaigns! I could increase my hourly rate or start an agency but it isn't feasible at the moment.

Either way GREAT JOB SEOMOZ - I tried some other SEO tools and stuck with you guys and you delivered the goods. Slam dunk, touchdown, home run, GOAAAALLLLL !

Once we get scaling with load/reports/campaigns/etc and have the hardware and processes to stay strong and grow scalably, we'll certainly be looking into upgrading access for all the membership tiers. It really depends on cost structures, usage and how these first few months go, but I can imagine us granting a few more campaigns at PRO, Elite & Premier in the future.

Right now I think Engineering feels a bit like Scotty - "I'm giving 'er all she's got cap'n! She canna take no more!"

Awesome work guys! After just having spent 10 minutes with a campaign - and 5 of those minutes waiting for the system to respond (Beta FTW) I'm confident this will very quickly become the heart of my future SEO audits.

Great job on creating an intuitive and user-friendly interface as well. I have seen plenty of fantastic technology solutions that are impossible to actually work with on a daily basis. This isn't and that's a big feat!

Have been playing aroudn with the app for a few hours, and its looking great. But how about adding the possibility to check rankings for non-english keywords by adding search language as a parameter? When adding search engines, I can select country but not language. Seems like all searches is performed in english, but my site is...well...not english :)

I love the new Crawl Diagnostics tab. It's definitely an improvement over the Crawl Test tool which was helpful but less user friendly. It's like I have my own little SEOMoz robot army working for me now...

Whoo Hoo!!!! I have been waiting for this beta with as much anticipation as I used to feel when I was a little one, in bed on Christmas Eve and waiting for Christmas morning to come. I've set up my first campaign but haven't finished playing with it. I wanted to come back here to say MAJOR WOO HOO!!!!! SEOmoz! You totally hit it outta the ballpark with this beta. Job well done.

When you do set up that campaign, be sure to import a few dozen keywords from your analytics. I was shocked when it showed me how many of my "top" referring keywords had C grades or worse and ranked in the top 10-20 regardless. It's weird to see the power of on-page optimization again; so 2002, but it really works.

Hey goodnewscowboy! You are the biggest Mozfanboi of all time, and I like it!

You've got me curious. What's up with your empty profile? Do you actually do SEO work for clients? Or maybe you're a webmaster that loves to learn about SEO for your own website?Do you have a website? Or maybe you're paid by SEOmoz? Does Rand personally deliver stacks of cash to your door every week in exchange for your abundant enthusiasm? :)

I'd really like to know more about you. You're one of my favourite mozzers. You're so engaged in the SEOmoz community, but beyond that, shrouded in mystery! What's your deal cowboy?

LOL! Gee Darren, I'm sure I'm not the biggest but I'll definitely admit to being one of the most sincere fans. Not only of the SEOmoz crew but of the community as well. There's never any flaming (we're not counting the other Darren - just kidding SEO Mofo) and plenty of respect given to all by all. It's hard not to be a fanboy (unless of course you're a girl in which case it'd be impossible)

Does Rand personally deliver stacks of cash to your door every week...

Hmmmm. While that hasn't happened yet, it would sure be a great use of that 1.2 million he's been sitting on. Rand...are you reading this?

What's your deal cowboy?

Believe it or not, online I'm an extremely private person. Which is why, as Cyrus found, I've managed to avoid putting any info about myself out there. For years and years I only lurked on these types of forums. When I finally lost the arm wrestle with myself to stay quiet, and started engaging, I picked a generic name that sorta described me and I've used it ever since.

But in the spirit of TAGFEE (that's WAGFEET for you Jen) I'll share this: I've been in outside sales most of my adult life. You can guess how long that's been by the fact that I received a GI Joe with the wooden footlocker as a lad. In the very early 2000's I became intrigued by the awesome sales potential of the web and I've been onboard the SEO learning wagon ever since.

I still work a full time job sales/mktg to put food on the table for my family (there's another tidbit) but my all consuming overriding passion is the combination of Site Design / SEO / Usability and the ability of that synthesis to produce world class income producing machines (aka really good websites)

Well done to the SEOmoz crew for this. Its been great to see it all take shape and go live to such a good response.

The best part is that the real value comes from this tool when it has been running for a week or two. So given the excitement already, things are really going to take off when everyone sees what the App can do after gathering more data!

First - so sorry about the initial crawls taking so long! We thought they would be much faster, but it turns out that we made one critical error in our implementation.

When someone requests a crawl be it so or fast, we put those into a queue. The problem that is happening is that we have so many crawls, that there is a big backup. We implemented prioritiesin the queue so that the fast crawls would go first, and then the big crawls would take place - but we can only have 1000 or so crawls going on at once. Right now those are being taken up by some big crawls and we don't want to cancel them because then those users won't get their full data. So that is the reason for the wait.

We are currently working on a solution which will allow us to easily separate the different crawls and considering removing the fast crawl. We hope that won't be necessary though, since there is a lot of satisfaction in getting data when you sign up (since some full crawls can take up to 7 days).

Hope that helps explain the wait. Hopefully the fast crawls will get finished in the next 24-48 hours.

Kate

(PS - sorry that was so long, but thought you would rather have more information than not enough)

So most of the rankings should be populated for campaigns setup on Wenesday-Friday.

Fast crawls are still a bit slower than we would like, but we are working on making those fasters (and a lot should be available if you site is fast - some of the delay is due to slow servers and our crawler tries to be very polite and not generate extra load).

As for the full site crawl, depending on your level of PRO and how fast your server is, this can take anywhere from 1-7 days. In most cases, for 10,000 pages and a fast server you should see results in about 2-4 days.

And once the crawl is done we do our on-page analysis. The thing to know here, is that it can take longer if you have big pages because we pull down the whole page to do the analysis. So you can expect these to take a little bit longer if you have lots of images, etc.

Hope that helps explain some of the delays! The app really does get truly awesome when you have a few weeks of data and can see trends, improvements, etc.

Also, please keep the feedback coming! We have been getting so many great ideas and really appreciate your thoughts and input.

Hmm, still nothing and no reply to my support request. I know I'm new here and there's clearly a lot of SEOmoz love going around but I'm finding it hard to justify the PRO membership I took out last week just to try this app. Granted it's beta, but surely it's reasonable to expect *some* degree of functionality or support?

Sorry for the time gap in responding to your support request - we've had a lot of great feedback from the beta and it has taken some time to sort through and respond to a lot of people. Again, terribly sorry for the delay.

I've responded to your request via your latest ticket; please respond to me there so I can get it in my support desk and respond to you faster. Again, thanks so much for your patience and for trying out the beta Web App!

Im reading people are tempted to get Pro Membership - with tools like this its really a no brainer - SEOMoz has been my tutor and this is great stuff - a tool that does my work for me - haha and im one of the original Grandfather accounts . Im getting an SEOmoz Tatoo

I have to say, though, I feel somewhat like Zaphod stepping out of the Total Perspective Vortex. It was so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in it for a month, but for the most part it just confirmed what I already knew.

Also, I'm hungry. For fairy cake. It should have some fairy cake in there somewhere. For that matter, you might consider calling it the "Total Perspective Vortex," it's a fitting name.

This is an awesome tool, it brings together the critical information in a scalable way.

What I like about SEOmoz is that you guys understand, better than anyone else I've seen, what information is most important for the actual practice of SEO, and you're actively conducting experiments and building tools to track that information.

Well done!

"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."

Great stuff, Rand! The thing I really appreciate about SEOmoz is that you guys come up with new, cutting-edge features all the time. You seem to be very in tune with us users and what we need/want. I can't wait to play with the WebApp this afternoon.

The only thing missing here is that you all didn't provide us with free tissues to wipe up the drool collecting from our excitement over this new app. Great job!

Finally!! Can't wait to test this epic suite tomorrow. Man .. Now I'm contemplating whether I should get up again and build a first campaign. Checking twitter one last time before going to bed seems to be getting unhealthy :-)

I am often asked to run competitive analysis and the magic number comes down to 4-6. This means that I usually talk my clients down to 4-6. When I deal with marketers (who's budgets usually pay for my services) they are always very keen on the competition.

Perhaps indulging them is the wrong tactic, but my vote is for 6 competitors.

Another concern with the competitor tracking are we only able to track main urls ie: www.seomoz.org and we can not seem to track Seomoz.org/blog/

The only reason I ask is I am testing this tool for specific keyword been finance realted, my competitors are SMB's yet also large corps weigh into this space the smb's use main urls yet the big crops use sub domains to target these keywords, as their main urls target more broad range keywords.

But yeah I am seeing the first results from my report and it is amazing stuff, I mean I have used over 20 SEO tools in the past 4 years and this is some great stuff =)

Well it really depends on your niche I guess, I mean "Potting mix supplier North Sydney" may have only two compeititors. Yet if I check up on some competitors in the finance or lawyers niche I see a easy need for 6.

I mean when you are left with 3 comeptitors when you are on page one for a keyword you do not only look at 4 rankings.

Wow, I am speechless this is more than amazing. Looks unbelievably great. Congrats Rand and all people who were involved in making of this. The tool leaves all others out there in dust, including Google ;-)

As I said before, I think this is fantastic. However, there is one significant piece of information that this tool is not giving me.

As Darth Rumsfeld put it, "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know." What I'm concerned about is a known unknown.

I want to know about popular keywords where I'm in the top 50, but I'm not well optimized. This does a great job of that for keywords that I already know about, but what about keywords I haven't thought of?

I know there are popular keywords I haven't thought of that I'm relevant for. Every now and then one of them will surface in Google Analytics, when I accidentally rank well enough to get some traffic.

So if you happen to do a rankings check for some other keyword not on my list and one of my pages is in the top 50, I would very much like to know about it.

Great point! This is why I'm so bullish on importing your top 50-500 referring keywords from Google Analytics. You'll find that many of these have rankings on page 2 or 3 and get grades of D-F.

In the future, we'll certainly be looking into ways to ID pages that might be ranking (mayb based on links or anchor text) but haven't been optimized and still live in the top 30-50 (where they likely get very few clicks at all). Integration with GA and Webmaster Tools APIs may help here, too.

I agree, and even if you only have 250 keywords, you can rotate those out as you take care of them and rotate new ones in. This will catch the really high traffic terms where you will get a fair number of referrals even if you're on page 4. So I'll be able to find many such terms by this procedure, yes.

Many, however, will slip through the cracks. I got traffic for 26,420 keywords in the last month. How many of those fall into this category of interest? I have no idea, and obviously I can't import them all even if I could afford the Pro Premier membership, which I can't. Some of these keywords may get only one visit in a month if you're on page 4, but still get reasonable traffic on page 1.

I understand that this is a lot to ask for, as you would have to keep track of the top 50 for every search query you do and cross-reference that with the URLs you've crawled for every account in order to display this data. Just thinking it might be a cool feature for the long term, that's all.

And the pricing will be $100 in less than 2 weeks so the actual comparison would be:

Elite costs 500% more, for a 100% increase in campaigns and an 800% increase in number of keywords tracked.

That said, my personal preference for Pro would be more campaigns, say 7-8, and maybe another 125 - 150 keywords.

But this is all beta and anything can happen in the future. Look at how they took off the cap for Linkscape reports. Chances are excellent that if they can afford the bandwidth and storage increases, they will give us more down the road. Cuz' that's just the kind of nice folks they are at the moz.

Too bad it is 11:00pm over here on the East Coast and I dont have time to start testing.

I actually had to get out of bed to make this comment (Your comment system doesnt seem to allow me to post from my Ipad. Maybe a safari or javascript thing?). And yes SEOmoz is part of my bedtime reading...

Tomorrow is shaping up to be an exciting day.

Now to just clear my schedule of those pesky client meetings so I can dig into the new tools.

I've got my first campaign results back, and I'm waiting on my second I set up. I was compelled to pop in and say "Hey everyone at the mozplex!" and now that I have your attention "This app is utterly, absolutely, TOTALLY STINKIN' AWESOME!!!!!!

Having access to all the tools right from the campaign itself is brilliant.

To everyone on the fence about whether or not to go PRO to get access to this tool, I have this to say:

Subscribe now while it's $79/mth to lock in the rate. You can always cancel next month (although I have a strong suspicion you won't)

I've only had a chance to have a thirty minute play around with the application so far but I'm absolutely loving it. The user interface is nearly perfect and I can't wait for the features to expand even more. Unfortunately I missed out on the Thursday update for the on-page grades.

One place I think it could be improved is the crawl errors. It takes waaaaay too many clicks to get where I want to get when I press "crawl errors". Everything else is great, though.

The new PRO price plans are very attractive. Unfortunately I may have to let my PRO membership run dry. I'll be sad to see it go but until get at least one SEO retainer then I can't afford to pay for it!! Maybe soon, eh?

I can't wait to see what SEOmoz brings to the table in the future. I genuinely thing that this is going to be the number one place to come for absolutely everything.

Also, great introduction video. Really passionate and interesting. I had it full blast and full screen on my 27" monitor at work whilst me and the SEO were getting excited about using the application.

Very new member here, trying to understand things. I added 2 campaigns with 5 keywords each on Thursday but to date I see only 1 page having been crawled on one domain and none on the other. Nothing is reported under crawl diagnostics or on-page optimization. Should I be doing something else to initiate reporting of these figures? Should I just wait longer? Could there be something wrong?

Nice tool. I did not get a chance to go through the comments so I am not sure if this was already answered. I ran my report and 90% of my problems were to do with wordpress in some way or another. Is that a pretty consisant issue since it is in beta or is there maybe something wrong with what I am doing in wordpress?

I have to say, I've never seen Rand extremely excited like that. Actually such a great App/Tool/Timer Saver deserve it. I'm happy for SEOmoz team, Rand, and every SEOmoz user (including me of course) for having this.

This is fantastic! I've been a Pro member for quite a while, and I've been hoping you would put out an App that pulls everything together... and now you did.

I have one question/request:

We have a couple of test sites that we use for our own research, we have our own agency site, and then we have 3 main client sites. A couple of the client sites have over 25 target/landing pages (each focusing on 3-4 keywords).

All of this puts us in the 400-500 keyword range. We don't have the budget yet to upgrade to the 2,000-keyword level. Do you guys have plans to offer other keyword usage options? Or do we just need to wait and upgrade when we are able?

One other thing. I created some campaigns, imported lists of keywords, got my competitors in there too. But I'm not seeing any data yet. This was about six hours ago, so I assume it had time to run.

I saw the note saying rankings update weekly on Saturdays - is this true for all the data and I just missed the update time? I'm itching to play around with this tool, so I hope I don't have to wait a week to see any data at all.

It's taken a couple of days for the ranking data to fill in for all of our keywords. It doesn't bother me at this point, as I can see the potential of all of the data pulled together in this tool. I'm sure SEOmoz is working hard to make it happen faster, but it is in beta.

My rankings tab is stuck too David. I highly suspect that this is all due to the inordinate demand upon the servers. But then that's the nature of the beta test. We're all doing our best to stress the straw outta the system. Kate is probably loving us right now ;)

It has been working. It's probably across the street right now taking a well earned coffee break.

We have just had a lot more initial crawls and rankings coming in all at once. We are going through them though and we are setting up even more servers with more queues, so hopefully we should be able to get rankings and crawl data back even faster.

I know all of us really appreciate your paitence and love for the new app! :)

Yeah, I only put in 5 keywords so as to get rankings immediately as mentioned by Rand above...but my rankings have been loading for over 40 minutes now. Not too big of a deal, as I was using RankChecker anyway and know where I rank but I wanted to play...

All the options look bad@ss though - keyword difficulty and rankings history right there. Plus I get an extra 150 keywords for the same price (or more, actually, since searching Yahoo and Google for the same keyword took up 2 credits).

Hi David - you're right; we've been seeing that many of these requests take time. We could be 1-2 hours before we grab new rankings right now, but that should be down to just a few minutes in the weeks to come (and we'll always update your rankings at least every 7 days automatically).

The current load is trending down a bit, but we expect to see a few more spikes before the week is over. We're also scaling up bandwidth, machines and re-writing some code to help out, so next week should be much better than this one.

One suggestion: you might want to reduce the initial crawl down to 50 URLs or so, then do a second crawl with 250, then the full crawl. It's taking quite a long time to do the initial crawl, and even with only 50 URLs at least we'd have something to play with while we wait for the rest of the crawl to finish.

Your timing is amazing! The engineering team is just now turning down the initial "fast" crawl to 50 pages to help ease the current load (we have more than 50,000 jobs in the queue right now). By Monday or Tuesday of next week, we believe we'll have things much better, and by the wider launch in 2 weeks, we're anticipating being considerably smoother and faster across the board.

That's ironic: I had 71 URLs crawled already when they turned it down to 50. So maybe my timing isn't so good after all!

The timing on releasing this tool is perfect, though. I was just starting to do an audit of my subcategory pages to look for low-hanging fruit of exactly the kind this is supposed to identify. It'll go a lot faster now!

Very nicely done- pro membership has never closer than now... would love for you to share how this will impact the PRO membership volume because with a tool like this many SEO could save some time and make some more adjustment to increase traffic, profits and more.

Managed to get my first campaign in just before I broke the whole thing :) Been hitting f5 for 2 hours now, hopefully in a few days time it will have been scaled up to be able to handle all the requests.

We are actually down right now upgrading the application, which should definitely improve things tomorrow! Expect more of these evening downtimes over the next couple of weeks while we sort out the "beta"-ness!